Cartier - A Rare Montre Couteau Keyless Minute Repeater Pocket Watch, in a typical "Knife-Edge" case with oval suspension.

Reference: 5894

Serial: 3454

Year: circa 1910s

Case Material: 18ct Yellow Gold (Case and case back marked internally with French eagle’s head indicating 18ct Gold, established 1838; Case back with white enamel monogram ‘MS’ to the exterior)

Case Diameter: Approximately 49mm

Dial: Gilt, Blued Breguet Hands

Numerals: Black Arabic Numerals, Minute Track

Movement: 15’’’ Movement, Jewelled, Keyless Manual-Wind

Complication: Clear Tonal Minute Repeating Mechanism, Seconds Subsidiary Dial at six o'clock

Box: No

Papers: No

Gross Weight: 64.0 grams

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This pocket watch has remained within the same family for multiple generations. It is believed to have belonged to the vendor’s great great grandfather, who was a financial advisor to Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Members of the family fled St Petersburg in 1920 during the Russian Revolution, taking the pocket watch with them and settling in France.

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Condition Report

The watch is currently running at time of assessment. No long-term tests have been performed and accuracy cannot be guaranteed.

A full service is advised on all watches and pocket watches once purchased.

Surface scratches, scuffs, dents & wear consistent with age and use.

Wear to gilding on dial.

Scratches to dial, most notably to the centre around the hands and to the seconds dial centre. Some scratches to other areas of dial such as at four o'clock.

Some wear and scratches to edges of case back.

Notches on both case front and case back slightly worn, commensurate with age and use.

Slight wear to hands, some losses to blue at centre and to tip of minute hands.

Repeating function in good working order at time of assessment.

Note that the online condition report may not mention mechanical replacements or imperfections to the movement, case, dial, pendulum, separate base(s) or dome.

Watches with water-resistant cases may have been opened to examine movements, but no warranties are given regarding their water resistance.

Note that this piece is available to view, and we recommend that you do as that we cannot guarantee the authenticity or originality of individual components, such as wheels, hands, crowns, crystals, screws, bracelets, and wrist bands, since subsequent repairs and restoration may have changed the original components. Also, we cannot guarantee the authenticity or originality of any engraving or re-engraving on watch cases, case backs, bracelets, straps, or internal movements.